Re: Colored pins for EMC map-- reply with city, state, country

["Matt Shaver" <mshaver-at-erols.com>]

I'm sure Fred is acutely (painfully?) aware of these machines, but for sake
of completeness and the interest of folks reading this thread:

Bridgeport V2E3 Knee Mill at Flatplate, Inc in York, PA.
http://users.erols.com/mshaver/v2e3.htm
This was my original machine and, for reasons that are rather complex, may
not exist anymore. I would suggest either a black or bronze colored pin for
this machine.

Wells Index Knee Mill at Unique Machine in Millersville, MD
No URL (Yet)
This machine had an ancient (CPM based) non-functional Sharnoa control
driving Electrocraft servo motors with encoder feedback. The motors,
encoders, and servo amps (along with all the electrical controls) were
salvaged and the Sharnoa control was replaced with a 100MHz Pentium PC
running EMC. This is the machine that the xemc GUI was first used on, and is
in semi-regular use producing parts for heavy (earth moving type) equipment.

Bridgeport BOSS 6 Knee Mill at Unique Machine in Millersville, MD
http://users.erols.com/mshaver/bps1.htm
I delivered this machine last week, and took an identical (but electronically
broken) machine in trade. This was my first experience with stepper motors
and it was, uh, educational... 

Future Prospects:

1. I'm going to retrofit a Bridgeport R2E3 for a gentleman in New York. This
machine should arrive in my shop this week.
2. I spoke today with another gentleman from Western MD about his stepper
motor powered Moog conversion. This would be interesting because it's a
retrofit of a retrofit!
3. Retrofit the trade-in machine. It's a basket case, and I'm debating
whether to just sell this machine as-is-where-is, or fix it up. One side of
me says there's more to learn about stepper motors, the other side of me says
sell it now and move on.
4. As I don't have a cnc machine of my own, I'd like to retrofit my manual
Bridgeport. Time will tell whether that happens...
5. What I really want to try is a lathe and/or a hexapod. Money (as usual) is
the holdup here.

Matt